--- title: And first she determined to learn the secret of his power, and, with… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And first she determined to learn the secret of his power, and, with flattering, caressing words, she tried to coax him to tell her how he was so clever that there was nothing in the world that he could not do. Who acts: feast, husband. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/135/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/) / 135 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 135 And first she determined to learn the secret of his power, and, with flattering, caressing words, she tried to coax him to tell her how he was so clever that there was nothing in the world that he could not do. **Who acts:** feast, husband · **What happens:** determine, learn, flatter, caress, try, coax · **To what, where:** secret, words, husband, feast, nothing, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:33:135 # text = And first she determined to learn the secret of his power, and, with flattering, caressing words, she tried to coax him to tell her how he was so clever that there was nothing in the world that he could not do. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 with with SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 flattering flatter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 caressing caress VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 19 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 coax coax VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 36 expl _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | past | feast | | | | | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | feast *not said here* | the secret of husband's power | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | | 3 | **flatter** | gerund | feast *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **caress** | gerund | feast *not said here* | words | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Experiencer | | 5 | **try** | past | feast | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **coax** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | feast *not said here* | husband | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | feast *not said here* | | feast | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **is** | past | husband | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **is a** | past | | nothing | | the world | | | tree rules | | 10 | **not** **do** | could | husband | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/136/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/)